Because of their higher status, members of national majorities (e.g., linguistic, ethnic, or religious) are likely to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the nation than members of national minorities (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, Pratto, 1997), which is reflected in a stronger attachment to the nation as a whole (e.g., Staerklé, Sidanius, Green, Molina, 2010). Accordingly, members of nation...

BACKGROUND Racial minorities are a rapidly growing portion of the US population. Research suggests that racial minorities are more vulnerable to mental illness due to risk factors, such as higher rates of poverty. Given that the burden of mental illnesses is significant, equal likelihood of mental health services utilization is important to reduce such burden. Racial minorities have been known ...

This article reviews theoretical perspectives explaining the positive relationship between group identification and perceptions of prejudice. In particular, we focus on the prejudice distribution account, which contends that highly identified minorities report more frequent experiences with prejudice than weakly identified minorities, in part, because majority group members do in fact react mor...

Immigrants and ethnic minorities tend to have lower life satisfaction than majority populations. However, current understanding of the drivers of these gaps is limited. Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of ethnic minorities and matched neighbourhood characteristics, we test whether first and second generation minorities experience lower life satisfaction once ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe common barriers, identify challenges for researchers, and provide strategies for recruitment and retention of ethnic minority groups for cancer nursing research. DATA SOURCES Computerized search of databases, published articles, abstracts, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. DATA SYNTHESIS Social, economic, and cultural factors present challenges to r...

rgan donation and organ allocation remain important issues for patients awaiting transplantation in the United States. The disparity between the number of deceased donors and the number of patients awaiting transplantation continues to widen each year. The number of deceased donors in the United States has remained stagnant at approximately 5,000 donors per year, while the waiting list for orga...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study examined how priming Whites with colorblind or multicultural approaches to diversity prior to an inter-racial interaction affects ethnic minorities' cognitive functioning. Although ethnic minorities did not explicitly know which prime their White partner received, ethnic minorities paired with Whites primed with colorblindness (vs. multiculturalism) showed poore...

This article introduces the special issue of International Journal Human Rights on cultural and linguistic rights minorities indigenous peoples. The right to life is at core all human identities but peoples have particular protect their collective identities, which are more easily eroded by dominant culture(s) or due harmful practices such as involuntary assimilation. conference brought togethe...

This contribution analyses the presence of multilingual skills in mountains Belluno Province, particular area Cadore and “Val di Zoldo”, which for centuries, have been affected by seasonal emigration ice-cream makers to German-speaking territories. The sociolinguistic reference data were extracted from my doctoral thesis (Campanale 2006a) are based on quantitative analysis (196 completed questi...

ABSTRACT This article examines the progression of counter-clockwise nasal vowel chain shift in Parisian French, investigating particular influence biological sex and sexuality on propagation this change from below. The research presented forms part a study participation sexual minorities ongoing sound change; aims to address continued exclusion sociolinguistic studies, which not only invisibili...